Saturday, December 15, 2012

We've started a gingerbread unit. In the past week, we have read many gingerbread stories:1. The Gingerbread Man2. The Gingerbread Girl3. The Gingerbread Cowboy4. Gingerbread Baby5. The Gingerbread PiratesThe students are very familiar with these stories now. We've compared the stories many times. Also, we did a sequencing project with the story, The Gingerbread Man. We've also made a gingerbread glyph and made gingerbread ornaments. Yesterday, we made a graph about our favorite gingerbread stories. Our class favorite: The Gingerbread Pirates! We will continue with our gingerbread unit next week. More fun to come!I managed to get pictures of a few friends with their finished gingerbread ornaments in front of our classroom tree:Here is our classroom tree after the students decorated it with their gingerbread ornaments:Here are two class pictures in front of the tree - one student was absent:

A brief update with pictures. I've managed to capture most of our celebrations on camera. Hopefully, life will slow down a little after the new year, and I will be able to start updating regularly with greater detail.Here they are dressed in pajamas for our 3rd lasso party celebrating their great behavior:Happy 6th birthday F!Happy 6th birthday K!Celebrating S's 6th birthdayHappy 6th Birthday S!Celebrating A's 6th birthdayHappy 6th birthday A!These students made their names out of blocks in reading centers - they are so creative!:Happy 1/2 birthday C!